The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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